Best Nautical Navigation Apps

4.8😐(22K ratings)

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#84in Navigation

This app provides comprehensive marine navigation tools, including worldwide chart coverage, weather forecasts, and AIS integration. It allows users to plan routes, track their position, and connect with onboard instruments for a complete boating experience.

What We Love

🚀 Accurate and precise navigation
📊 Comprehensive charting and navigation features
🛠️ Customizable instrument settings
🔄 Redundancy across devices
💨 Reliable performance over many years

Room to Improve

🤔 Clunky and unintuitive user interface
🗺️ Cumbersome chart management and downloading
🔋 Battery drain issues
💰 Expensive subscription model for charts
🐛 Stability issues and crashes

Savvy Navvy: Boat Navigation by savvy navvy

GPS, Nautical Charts, Boating

Strong Contender

4.7😐(8K ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

#47in Navigation

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This app provides comprehensive marine navigation, integrating charts, weather, tides, and GPS tracking. It simplifies route planning and offers real-time safety data to ensure confident and enjoyable time on the water for various boating activities.

What We Love

🚀 Easy to use
👍 Helpful for navigation
🌊 Accurate charts and data
💡 Useful features like weather and tide info
👍 Great for planning routes
🌟 Comprehensive boating app

Room to Improve

🐛 Buggy and crashes
💰 Expensive subscription
🗺️ Missing chart data for some areas
🤔 Confusing to set up
🔋 Drains battery quickly
🤷‍♀️ Lacks some key features

Navionics® Boating by Garmin

Nautical and fishing charts

Worth Considering

PRO CHARTS - Marine Navigation

2.9😞(2.3K ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

#4in Navigation

Access detailed nautical charts and advanced boating features offline on your mobile device. Plan trips with dock-to-dock guidance, check weather and tides, and connect with a community of boaters. Ideal for cruising, fishing, sailing, and diving.

What We Love

🚀 Great navigation app
🗺️ Detailed charts and maps
⚓ Useful for boating and sailing
💰 Good value for money

Room to Improve

🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
🔒 Login issues and unreliable offline access
💰 Expensive subscription model
🗺️ Inaccurate or outdated map data

More Nautical Navigation apps to explore

by MiraTrex, Inc.

High-resolution NOAA nautical chartsOffline chart accessWaypoint and route creation

Navigate marine environments with detailed nautical charts and route planning. Track your location, find friends on the water, and share your trip details for safety. Offline chart access ensures reliable navigation even without an internet connection.

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i-Boating: Marine Charts & Gps

Lake Depth Map,Sailing Plotter

Detailed vector marine chartsRoute planning and editingVoice-guided navigation

Navigate waterways with detailed marine charts and GPS. Features include route planning, voice-guided navigation, tide and current predictions, and track recording. Offers extensive map coverage for various regions and inland rivers.

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Argo Navigation: Boat GPS, Map

Marine Charts, Weather & Tides

Web/Desktop planning with auto-syncAutorouting for multi-stop trips7-day marine weather forecast

This app provides comprehensive navigation and planning tools for boaters, offering features like chart plotting, route planning, and weather forecasts. It aims to be user-friendly for all skill levels, from beginners to experienced cruisers, with a focus on safety and connectivity on the water.

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Marine navigation and fishing

Aqua Map Boating

Official NOAA nautical chartsOffline map downloadsGPS track recording

This app provides official, weekly updated nautical charts for marine navigation. It allows for offline map downloads, GPS track recording, and integration with onboard instruments. Enhance your boating safety and experience with advanced features like weather forecasts and AIS collision detection.

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Navigation Marine

Essential marine tools

Speedometer (knots, mph, km/h)Course Over GroundPosition tracking

This marine navigation tool provides essential functions for sailors, yachts, and boats. It includes a speedometer, position tracking, waypoint management, distance measurement, and course guidance to waypoints.

Scirocco - Marine Navigation

ad-supported

Offline GPS, routes, boat log

Celestial Navigation Primer

🔍 Reference

SeaVectors: Marine Navigation

NOAA ENC Charts, Winds & Tides

ECDIS-grade ENC chartsReal-time marine conditionsCustomizable instrument panel

This app provides professional marine navigation with official ENC charts and real-time weather data. It offers advanced instrument displays, alerts for restricted areas and fishing closures, and route planning capabilities for safe and informed voyages.

Circle Of Position Navigation

Sun Navigation

$8.99

This app provides a backup navigation system using the sun, similar to chart plotter satellite navigation. It requires manual sextant readings and allows users to input times and measurements to display their position on an electronic map, creating a journey track.

Sun navigation systemIndependent backup navigationElectronic map display

Lowrance: app for anglers

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paid

Great fishing charts

Detailed C-MAP fishing chartsWaypoint managementOffline map downloads

This app provides detailed fishing charts and navigation tools for anglers. Manage waypoints, discover new fishing spots, and plan trips with offline maps and autorouting. Sync data with your Lowrance devices for a seamless on-water experience.

(2.7K)

My nautical school

by Advenio Software

Custom school brandingRadio learning moduleSounds learning module

This app provides tools for nautical course instructors to deliver engaging content to their students. It allows for custom branding and offers learning modules on radio, sounds, lights, and rules of passage, accessible anytime on mobile devices.

📚 Education

The Anchors: Marine navigation

Boat speed, bearings, compass

This professional nautical compass provides essential trip information and allows for precise bearing determination with an additional sighting compass. You can fix your current course and adjust your phone to measure course changes and angles.

Professional nautical compassSighting compass for bearingsFix current course

Study maritime navigation lights and vessel identification according to COLREGs-72. Observe vessels from various angles to understand their position, capabilities, and activities in low visibility. Ideal for aspiring and current navigators.

COLREGs-72 compliant studyObserve night lights from multiple anglesUnderstand vessel position and capabilities

by The Nautical Institute

Professional marine navigation insightsFree publicationArticles on radar and ECDIS

This free publication offers insights and professional development for marine navigators. It features articles on crucial topics like radar, ECDIS, and passage planning, with access to past editions.

Navique Passage Planner

by Tony Dagger

$5.99

Create detailed passage plans with multiple waypoints using GPS coordinates or map selection. The app accounts for vessel speed, magnetic variation, and deviation to calculate courses. Save and print your plans for easy reference, and manage multiple vessel profiles.

Create passage plans with multiple waypointsSet points via lat/long or map selectionApply vessel speed, magnetic variation, and deviation